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Can anyone advise:

 

Currently using D-Lux2 with a 65x SD card, and want to purchase a larger speedier card (if possible). Has anyone experienced noticable gains when shooting RAW with a card such as the Sandisk Extreme III (twice as fast) in comparison with a standard 65x card?

 

To some degree a SD card's performance is directly related to the camera it's used with, and therefore does the D-Lux2 have the ability to go faster.. and faster.. ?

 

John

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[cbretteville]

There is most likely a maximum speed at which the camera can flush data to a card. The example being the Digilux 2 which has a shortest write time of 6 seconds for a RAW+JPEG file pair. It dosen't matter how fast the card is. Older, really slow cards takes longer but once you get to about 32x it takes 6 seconds regardless of the card's speed rating.

 

The only way to see if your D-Lux 2 is capable of utilizing the speed of say a 133x card is to test one and see.

 

- C

[rsolomon]

i have just purchased the 2 gig extreme III. however i use it in the DMR. Ithink the things to check is the speed of the D-lux2. The throttle of overall speed will be on the camera side not the SD card. Also no sense buying a card that can move data quicker then the camera can .

 

for example, what good it it to have a catcher that can catch a balll that goes 200 miles per hour if the pitcher can only throw the ball 100 miles per hour

[LJL]

The one big advantage of a faster card, even if the camera cannot write any faster, is when you download from card to computer. With a high speed card reader, it can make unloading go a lot faster. If you shoot a lot, and fill a lot of smaller cards, this can make some difference in your workflow speeds. Just a thought.

 

LJ